The thing appeared, however, so improbable that if it were not for the fact that this occurred in a region in which there were no Europeans at all-about three hundred and seventy-five miles from the nearest coast-the doctor and the captain would have assumed that it was an ill-timed joke, which had been perpetrated by some European children who had read the newspapers describing the abduction, or by wards of missions.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
I hope Gabriel's trumpet is not timed for the dinner hour, for it is quite certain my mother will not allow even that to postpone her sitting down.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford
Muhlenberg, however, has seriously offended the President by making a joke of the proposition; and I must say, it was ill-timed of Muhlenberg, and not what I should have expected of him.
"The Maid of Maiden Lane"
Amelia E. Barr